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Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War, by Christian Jennings, ForeEdge, Lebanon, N.H., 2017, $29.95 The term “Cold War” inevitably conjures gray, grainy images of the 1950s, when the nuclear arms race between the United...

American soldier, George Mabry, also saw hard combat in Europe and, while hardly a household name, certainly distinguished himself among the 8 million–man U.S. Army of World War II. Indeed, by some measures he was the second most...

By late 1953, the French army had lost the initiative in its fight to retain the nation’s colony in Indochina. A Vietnamese insurgency controlled much of the countryside and was steadily increasing in strength. In some seven years of...

Hallowed Grounds PBS, 2009, 56 minutes, $24.99 This documentary pays tribute to America’s 24 overseas military cemeteries and the nearly 125,000 soldiers interred in them. The film opens with a sobering explanation of the burial...

Operation Barbarossa: The Struggle for Russia by Matrix Games, 2009, $49.99 (retail), $34.99 (download) Operation Barbarossa highlights the major Eastern Front battles during World War II. The first of the game’s three campaigns tracks...

Battle of Surigao Strait by Anthony P. Tully, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2009, $27.95 For more than four centuries, the big gun reigned as the supreme arbiter of war at sea. Beginning in 1512, when Henry VIII commissioned the...

The improbable life and times of Henry Francisco. Henry Francisco was no stranger to the battlefield when the American Revolution broke out virtually on his doorstep in the winter of 1776–77. Given an imminent British invasion of upper...

The German troops who swarmed over two key French fortresses protecting Verdun anticipated a tough fight. They were only half right. When the German army attacked Verdun, France, on Feb. 21, 1916, it ran up against a ring of 18 large forts...

In 1984 the nation officially laid to rest the remains of an unknown serviceman from the Vietnam War. By 1998 he was unknown no more. After more than a decade of uncertainty, the nation was finally honoring the Unknown of the Vietnam War...

Teutonic military history of the 20th century was marked by tactical brilliance but undone by strategic incompetence. The 20th century opened with an unprecedented flurry of technological and scientific advances. Among the nations at the...

Lt. Cmdr. Gerard Roope British Royal Navy Victoria Cross Norwegian Sea April 8, 1940 One of World War II’s most unusual—and gallant—stories unfolded early in the war off the Norway coast. That the action prompted the award of the...

Although Lord Louis Mountbatten oversaw India’s postwar independence from Britain and was later murdered in a headline-grabbing IRA bombing, history best remembers him for the World War II debacle at Dieppe. Despite Mountbatten’s...

Art of the Samurai edited by Morihiro Ogawa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, $45 Produced in conjunction with the Met’s recent exhibition “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868”, this comprehensive...

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